What is the 1st bit of art you remember?

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 03:17PM #1

What is the 1st image of art that you remember?

I mean in the traditional painting/drawing/children illustration way, but if you remember music or a tv show fair enough

Mine would have to be an image of Van Gogh's chair, a print hung in out hall way since I was small, and along the stair wall was Constable's horses.

http://www.jackdavisart.co.uk/July08/Chair.jpg
http://www.thelilypad.co.uk/graphics/haywain.jpg
http://www.grahamdragon.co.uk/conwhi.jpg

The 1st children's book that I remember would be Peter Rabbit and The Tiger Came to Tea.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14838/14838-h/images/peter11.jpg
http://www.thetigerwhocametotealive.com/img/tiger2.gif

What about you?

Mocha Joe · 24-07-2013 03:19PM

I did some pretty abstract art in excrement on the wall when I was quite young.

mike65 · 24-07-2013 03:19PM

Living room painting - Two horses galloping across a plain under a dark sky.

Ihatecuddles-old · 24-07-2013 03:20PM

All my creations had the sun drawn up in the top corner. Sometimes he had a smiley face.

Ihatecuddles-old · 24-07-2013 03:21PM

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

seven_eleven · 24-07-2013 03:22PM

Genuinely can't remember my first bit of picture art, because I never really had an interest in it that much. But I remember being introduced to classical music and orchestra at a very young age.

Can't quite remember the exact group but the cd had red soldiers or something on the front of it, maybe a british flag too.

First books I read were probably the ladybird books.

http://i.imgur.com/P0o156s.jpg I used to have loads of them!

Amerika · 24-07-2013 03:25PM

As a young lad going through puberty, Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" holds fond memories.

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 03:32PM

Amerika wrote: »

As a young lad going through puberty, Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" holds fond memories.

You showed signs of good classy taste from a young age then :P

mathie · 24-07-2013 03:34PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

Van Goghs "Blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor"

Rayne Wooney · 24-07-2013 03:34PM

BeerWolf · 24-07-2013 03:36PM

Mocha Joe wrote: »

I did some pretty abstract art in excrement on the wall when I was quite young.

Should've followed up with that, since that's what all abstract art is.

Pile o' ****s.

As with regards to what I remember when I was a toddler.... oriental south east Asian art pieces of a wide variety - nothing in particular. Still got them.

Aglomerado · 24-07-2013 03:39PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

This?

For me it was Van Gogh's Sunflowers, in the news because it fetched a record price at auction.

The Backwards Man · 24-07-2013 03:40PM

A picture of J F fcuking K

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 03:40PM

I do remember Roald Dahl fondly as I grew up too, with the illustrations by Quentin Blake.

24-07-2013 03:42PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

Not really, perhaps the dog was unwell and the blonde girl was having some difficulties coming to terms with the situation. Will this do?

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 03:50PM

I must say, pictures of the Divine Mercy and Mary were in the living room too, the eyes followed you no matter where you were.

Aglomerado · 24-07-2013 03:52PM

Sometimes a triptych with JFK on one side, Jesus on the other and a mirror in the middle!

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 03:55PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Sometimes a triptych with JFK on one side, Jesus on the other and a mirror in the middle!

In my house it was Jesus, mirror and then wee Pope John Paul, alongside a statue of Mary and Padre Pio on the mantle piece beside the primary school pictures.

Miss Lockhart · 24-07-2013 04:04PM

The Gleaners by Millet.

Don't know how it came to hang in our house. My family have zero interest in art, it's the only picture of any kind in the house. They don't even know what it is

WindSock · 24-07-2013 04:30PM

A nice oil painting style picture of Santa nestled in a snowy Victorian street scene on a tin of something.

hanlonm · 24-07-2013 04:32PM

Going to dublin museum when i was a child!:)

RikkFlair · 24-07-2013 04:39PM

Probably my own creation that won me a Community Games medal. Still living off the back of that success :cool:

:pac:

TheLastMohican · 24-07-2013 04:43PM

A used nappy (Damien Hirst style) without the formaldehyde

24-07-2013 04:44PM

The Snowman storybook.
The first time I understood a story by myself.

Tabnabs · 24-07-2013 04:44PM

Granny's old Sacred Heart of Jesus hanging on the wall and me thinking, WTF is wrong with him?? :eek:

http://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/enthronement-4.jpg

BraziliaNZ · 24-07-2013 05:03PM

This

http://artandscienceintherenaissance.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/art5.jpg

The detail in that painting is amazing. It was in a book in my family home. It's mesmerising to me still, I don't even know why, I'm no art critic.

Pensivepuca · 24-07-2013 06:03PM

^ ah yes, you can see the artists self portrait in the mirror at the top. Lovely painting.

castletownman · 24-07-2013 06:08PM

A botched attempt at assembling a barbecue that became a phenomenon in the modern abstract art scene

o1s1n · 24-07-2013 06:14PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

This

http://artandscienceintherenaissance.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/art5.jpg

The detail in that painting is amazing. It was in a book in my family home. It's mesmerising to me still, I don't even know why, I'm no art critic.

Worth seeing if you're ever around The National Gallery, London.

One thing to note, it's one of those paintings which you expect to be a lot bigger than it actually it, it's tiny.

Pensivepuca wrote: »

^ ah yes, you can see the artists self portrait in the mirror at the top. Lovely painting.

It's actually two people standing in a doorway, apparently one may be Van Eyck - I've also heard that it might be a priest/witness of the ceremony.

Funny thing about that, the signature over the mirror translates as 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434' - pretty much artistic graffiti

Weevil · 24-07-2013 06:31PM

A picture of St. Martin de Porres

Los Lobos · 24-07-2013 06:38PM

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eight years old, listenin to the record with my old mans big fcuk off headphones on.
Thats the first thing came to mind anyway.

What is the 1st bit of art you remember?

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